Using Sygate's Online Services

Assessing your vulnerability to an attack is one of the most important steps that you can take to ensure that your system is protected from possible intruders. With what you learn from this battery of tests, you can more effectively set the various options on your Personal Firewall to protect your system from attack.

Click the Security Test button located on the main console of the Personal Firewall, or select Test Your Firewall from the Tools menu:

The Sygate Technologies Web page (http://scan.sygate.com) displays. If you then choose Scan Now, the Sygate Online Services scanner scans your computer and attempts to determine your IP address, operating system, Web browser, and other information about your system.

You can then choose one of the more focused scans. To find out more about each one, click the name of the scan.

• Quick Scan

• Stealth Scan

• Trojan Scan

• TCP Scan

• UDP Scan

• ICMP Scan

To scan your system:

Click the name of the scan and then click Scan Now.

A brief document of frequently asked questions about Sygate Online Services is also available from the main scan page. Click Scan FAQ at the bottom left side of the screen.